Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Brightwheel's full-stack Education team as an experienced Engineering Manager! Lead a team building a best-in-class learning platform used by administrators, teachers, and parents. You will launch new features and products, collaborate with product and design teams, and ensure the reliability of software. The role requires managing a team, driving process improvements, and contributing to engineering-wide initiatives. Brightwheel offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, and benefits. We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US.

Requirements

• You bring 2+ years of experience managing a full-stack product engineering team of 4+ engineers, and have a track record of shipping critical customer-facing features
• You have experience delivering zero-to-one products as well as enhancing existing products and technologies
• You have experience hiring engineers at various levels including Sr Engineers and above
• You have a pragmatic approach to developing and evolving right-sized processes that help teams operate effectively
• You have experience working with 3rd party vendors to deliver customer-facing solutions
• You have strong technical depth and can participate in, as well as influence, technical architecture and design discussions, especially as it pertains to scalability and reliability
• You work very well cross-functionally and are able to make hard decisions and trade-offs while incorporating a diversity of perspectives
• You’re an empathetic listener with strong verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and different levels within the company
• You encourage a healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging

Responsibilities

• Lead a full-stack team of passionate, dedicated engineers to rapidly deliver projects while balancing quality
• Partner with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to deliver against pod goals and roadmaps
• Maintain accountability for the architecture, development, testing, and reliability of for featuresets within the pod’s ownership
• Develop and grow the team by mentoring and coaching engineers, as well as through performance management and hiring
• Drive process improvements to increase product velocity while simultaneously raising the bar for quality and operational excellence
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Brightwheel’s engineering management team

Benefits

• Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid parental leave
• A flexible paid time off policy
• A monthly wellness and productivity stipend
• A Learning & Development stipend